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[REGISTRATION REMINDER]: Critical Pedagogies: Equality and Diversity in a Changing Institution symposium

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Sunday, July 14, 2013 - 1:53pm
Maja Milatovic and Lena Wånggren, University of Edinburgh

Critical Pedagogies: Equality and Diversity in a Changing Institution symposium (6 of September 2013, University of Edinburgh): Deadline for registration: 1st of August.

This interdisciplinary symposium, aimed at opening discussions regarding teaching in our changing institutions and investigating how our roles as both teachers and learners are continuously challenged and negotiated, features keynote lectures by:

Professor Heidi Safia Mirza:
"Decolonizing Pedagogies: Black feminist reflections on teaching race, faith and culture in higher education"

Professor Joyce Canaan:
"Building alternatives to the neoliberalising university: what critical pedagogy can offer"

Panel on "Commons Within and Beyond Nation"

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Sunday, July 14, 2013 - 1:48pm
C19: "Commons," Third Biennial Conference, March 13-16, 2014, UNC-Chapel Hill

In recent years, scholars invested in a historical materialist approach have offered an analysis of the early national period that views the American populace as comprised of various classes, factions, and sects whose interests both divided and extended beyond the boundaries of nationhood.

Call for Book Reviews

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Sunday, July 14, 2013 - 1:39pm
The Shakespeare Newsletter

The Shakespeare Newsletter seeks reviewers for the following monographs and essay collections:

Bayer, Mark. Theatre, Community, and Civic Engagement in Jacobean London. Iowa City: U. of Iowa Press, 2011.

Bromley, James M. and Stockton, Will, eds. Sex Before Sex: Figuring the Act in Early Modern England. Minneapolis: U. of Minnesota Press, 2013.

Burnett, Mark Thornton. Shakespeare and World Cinema. New York: Cambridge U. Press, 2013.

Carnegie, David and Taylor, Gary, eds. The Quest for Cardenio: Shakespeare, Fletcher, Cerantes, and the Lost Play. Oxford: Oxford U. Press, 2012.

Fletcher, John. The Island Princess. Ed. Clare McManus. London: Methuen Drama, 2013.

Workshop on 'Modern Approaches to English Language Teaching' at MNIT, Jaipur, India, from 16 to 17 August 2013.

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Saturday, July 13, 2013 - 9:40pm
Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur, India

We are pleased to announce a call for participants for a Workshop on 'Modern Approaches to English Language Teaching' for faculty of English at Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur, India, from 16 to 17 August 2013.

To keep pace with the latest developments in the techniques and resources for language teaching, and the changing needs of the learners, language teachers need to update their knowledge and skills periodically. Specialized training needs to be imparted to language teachers to increase their expertise and knowledge of modern resources and strategies which can be incorporated in class.

[UPDATE] Speaking in Two Voices: Academics Parenting Children with Disabilities--NeMLA Harrisburg 4/3-4/6: Abstracts due 9/30

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Saturday, July 13, 2013 - 8:14pm
Angela Ridinger-Dotterman/Suffolk County Community College

The growth of Disability Studies over the past two decades appears as an indication that academe is becoming more inclusive of those with disabilities. Scholarship increasingly focuses on the representation of various disabilities within literary texts, and more disability-centered texts are finding their way onto course syllabi. What does this mean for those of us who are both academics and parents of exceptional children?

Modernist Communities: The inaugural international conference of the French Society of Modernist Studies (31 Oct 2013)

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Saturday, July 13, 2013 - 9:46am
Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris 3)

MODERNIST COMMUNITIES

The inaugural international conference of the
French Society of Modernist Studies

25-26 April 2014
University of the Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3
Paris, France

Keynote speakers:
Jessica Berman (University of Maryland)
Linnell Secomb (University of Greenwich)

Call for papers

CfP for SCMS 2014 proposed panel: The Spatial Politics of Classical Hollywood

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Saturday, July 13, 2013 - 5:08am
Dr. Anna Sloan, University of Sussex

Proposed panel: The Spatial Politics of Classical Hollywood

In light of the "spatial turn" in cinema studies of the past decade, this panel aims to revisit and reconceptualise issues of space, place and geography in relation to classical Hollywood cinema. Certain Hollywood genres have been robustly explored in terms of these issues in past scholarship (e.g. the western, science fiction), as well as certain directors (e.g. Ford, Minnelli) and stars (e.g. Valentino), yet much territory remains unexplored. This panel seeks a diverse range of papers that either re-think spatial politics in more established areas, or that explore new areas, in ways that reflect the significant developments in scholarship surrounding space and place in recent years.

Charles-Valentin Alkan USA Bicentennial Conference, November 9, 2013

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Saturday, July 13, 2013 - 3:08am
Dr. Hilary Demske/Utah Valley University

Alkan USA Bicentennial Conference, November 9, 2013 at Utah Valley University. Keynote Speaker: Dr. Hugh Macdonald, Avis Blewett Professor of Music at Washington University in St. Louis.

Please see http://www.alkanconferenceusa.org for more information.

This one-day conference will feature paper presentations, performances, and lecture-recitals on Alkan's life and work. Interdisciplinary proposals from musicologists, pianists, composers, historians, linguists, and researchers in a broad field of humanities are welcome. Presenters are eligible for up to $800 in cash awards.

[UPDATE] From God's eye to the Big Brother's room. Geographies of espionage. ONLINE: May 2014

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Saturday, July 13, 2013 - 2:15am
ALTRE MODERNITA' UNIVERSITA' DEGLI STUDI DI MILANO

The function of the eye that spies on us all apparently has never been benevolent, be it a tangible eye, an intangible, or a technological one. From the stern God of the Old Testament — who tracked down the culprits and punished them — to the evolution of modern dystopias, the eye has become increasingly implacable, ubiquitous, and immediate in its expressions, so that there is no time, nor space, left for a postponed punishment. If we want to find a good eye, a fair spy, it is necessary to shift to the side of the observer, of the hero (in this case, with no anti prefix), who sacrifices his/her safety for a larger good, with no doubts or hesitations.

Early Modern Women, Religion, and the Body Conference

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Friday, July 12, 2013 - 5:41pm
Dept of English and Drama, Loughborough University, UK

Early Modern Women, Religion, and the Body

22-23 July 2014, Loughborough University

Plenary speakers: Professor Mary Fissell (Johns Hopkins) and Dr Katharine Hodgkin (University of East London)

With public lecture by Alison Weir (evening of 22 July, Martin Hall Theatre): '"The Prince expected in due season": The Queen's First Duty'

Speech, Performance, and Authority in Later Medieval Religious Literature

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Friday, July 12, 2013 - 12:09pm
special session, 49th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 8-11 May 2014

This session will explore the use of speech, voice, and dialogue in later medieval religious literature, including texts produced during the high and late Middle Ages (c. 1000-1500). The session will engage with current scholarly discourse from a number of disciplinary angles, including studies of the performativity and rhetoric of medieval religious texts as well as the study of the history of dialogue. The papers in the session will seek to expand upon J.L.

Undergraduate Refereed Journal Needs Reviewers

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Friday, July 12, 2013 - 11:08am
Queen City Writers, University of Cincinnati

Queen City Writers is a refereed journal that publishes essays and multimedia work by undergraduate students affiliated with any post-secondary institution. We seek faculty reviewers to complement our current staff. Graduate students, contingent faculty, and tenured faculty are welcome. Reviewers for our journal need two characteristics: 1. A commitment to undergraduate writing, digital composing, and publication; 2. A professionalism that means submitting thorough reviews that meet our journal's guidelines by deadlines. We ask that our reviewers offer rigorous feedback aimed at facilitating publication-quality work, but also show sensitivity and an encouraging attitude toward undergraduate (and inexperienced) writers.

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